Equalities Statement

Equalities Principles

Our vision is to create a school where students strive to ensure everyone feels valued and respected and our ethos brings together our children, community, staff and parents to provide a safe and nurturing environment for all.

Equality Act 2010

As a school we welcome our duties under the Equality Act 2010. The general duties are to:

eliminate discrimination,

advance equality of opportunity

foster good relations

We understand the principle of the Act and the work needed to ensure that those with protected characteristics are not discriminated against and are given equality of opportunity.

A protected characteristic under the act covers the groups listed below:

age (for employees not for service provision),

disability

ethnicity

gender

gender reassignment

maternity and pregnancy

religion and belief, and

sexual identity

Marriage and Civil Partnership (for employees)

We endeavor to annually review what we are doing as a school community to meet these duties, to do this we will collect data related to the protected characteristics above and analyse this data to determine our focus for our equality objectives. The data will be assessed across our core provisions as a school. This will include the following functions:

Admissions

Attendance

Attainment

Exclusions

Prejudice related incidents

Our objectives will detail how we will ensure equality is applied to the services listed above however where we find evidence that other functions have a significant impact on any particular group we will include work in this area. We also welcome our duty under the Education and Inspections Act 2006 to promote community cohesion. We recognise that these duties reflect international human rights standards as expressed in the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, the UN Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities, and the Human Rights Act 1998.

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